Café opens 21 September, 8am

Colleagues

The people
behind the promise

A leadership team and board that together carry both the craft and the calling of second chances — pairing lived experience with professional, training, creative, and pastoral depth.

The TCE Academy team gathered over coffee
Leadership · C-suite
MP Matthew PohChief Operating Officer & Founder

Founder of The Caffeine Experience (2017). ASEAN Coffee Institute Head Trainer, ACTA-licensed, and 12th at the Singapore National Barista Championship. Carries the Academy's mission, training and reintegration. “I connect with them because I am one of them.”

JL Jaydee LinChief Executive Officer

Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Raffles Family Office, one of Asia's prominent multi-family offices. Brings institutional financial discipline and a heart for second chances — setting strategy, governance and long-term sustainability.

HS Hue Siew YeunChief Financial Officer

CFO and the operational heartbeat of The Caffeine Experience since 2019, and an NUS Science (Hons) graduate. Oversees café operations and finances — the steady hand that keeps the daytime business sustaining the evening academy.

LS Lee See TingChief Training Officer

Founder and CEO of The Emboldr, Future-of-Work consultant and author of Gen Z Secrets. Designs and leads the Pillar B / 3C soft-skills curriculum, and instructs at General Assembly Singapore.

AW Amos WongChief Marketing Officer

Editorial and commercial photographer with 25 years' experience and founder of the PizzaFace brand. Leads brand and visual storytelling, and co-leads the faith-formation track.

BT Brian Tan WenhaoChief Counselling Officer

Leads the Academy's counselling and emotional-care practice — walking with learners through the personal and relational work that helps change last.

Board & Advisors

Governance & oversight

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Pastor Paul TanBoard Director · To Be Appointed

Director of Crossroads Singapore and Regional Director for Asia at Crossroads Prison Ministries, with decades of prison chaplaincy across Changi and halfway houses.

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Dr Shirleen CheeAdvisor — Education & Governance

Provides oversight on educational quality and governance — ensuring the Academy's curriculum and accreditation pathways are rigorous and accountable.

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Dr Sherman OngAdvisor — Strategy & People Development

Guides organisational strategy and people development, helping the Academy grow its team and impact responsibly.

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Mr LiatBoard Director · To Be Appointed

Brings specialty-coffee industry and social-enterprise insight to the board, anchoring the vocational mission in commercial reality.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!”

2 Corinthians 5:17 · Soli Deo Gloria